Cooperation over Water Resources as a Tool for Desecuritisation: The Israeli – Palestinian Environmental NGOs as Desecuritising Actor
Publisher: European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
Author(s): Bezen Balamir Coskun
Date: 2009
Topics: Cooperation, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Renewable Resources
Countries: Israel, Palestine
This article discusses the role of the Israeli and Palestinian environmental NGOs as desecuritising actors who have attempted to initiate a desecuritisation process. In this regard, the article first reviews the Copenhagen School’s securitisation theory with a particular focus on the concept of desecuritisation and desecuritising actor. Based on the notion of desecuritisation, an analytical framework for analysis will be suggested here to integrate Israeli-Palestinian environmental NGOs’ water management efforts as contributions in desecuritisation of relations between Israelis and Palestinians with wider conflict resolution efforts.